Tim McCormack creates drawings and paintings that explore and expand upon tradition with a sense of discovery and improvisation.

He brings a presence and refreshing immediacy to portraits, landscapes and desserts, creating work that is ‘traditionally new’ with a passion for both drawing and painting media that is both free and refined.

Ink has always been an important part of his art practice from a young age. Growing up with a family of artists meant art materials were around and available. Ballpoint was his first medium of choice. Whether writing or drawing, it was all the same. He loved those inky blue Bic lines that smeared beneath his left drawing hand. Later, he gravitated towards pen and ink due his lifelong sketchbook practice. Tim loves drawing people in the coffee shop on the subway. Artists from Ronald Searle to Alan E. Cober inspired him. He started with the old Rapidographs that always clogged and moved on to fountain pens. To him, pen and ink and portraits are the perfect marriage. 

McCormack received a Masters Interdisciplinary from York University for his thesis project, ‘The Digital Romantic Landscape: From the Sublime to the Cool.’ He is an accomplished artist with thirty years of teaching experience, including being the Lead Instructor in the Figure Drawing Stream in the highly respected Bachelor of Animation Program at Sheridan College. A graduate of OCAD, he has had several solo shows of watercolours, oils and pastels.